Bobbin-support.



J. O. WADE.

BOBBIN SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 21, 1909.

947,465, Patented Jan. 25, 1910.

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llb'lllll li JAMES QWVALDE, (It? ELON CULTLEGE, NORTH CAROLINA, ASSIGZNOI (J1 GNE-HAL'E"IO HAROLD C. POLLARD, 0F ELGN COLLEGE, NORTH CAROLINA.

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Specification of rs iatented Jan. 235, 1910.

application filed July 21, L909. fierial No. 508,843.

The present invention relates more pan ticularly to meansio'r supporting bobbins while being transferred from a battery or replenishing nlagazine to the shuttle of a loom.

One of the primary objects of the invention is to provide a device which is exceed ingly simple, and will outlast those now in general use.

A further object is to so construct the dcviee that it will guide the bobbin and prevent its flying out of the shuttle and causing a smash of the warp yarn.

Still another and important object is to provide a supporting device, which will not hang in the shuttle, and thus cause the shuttle to be broken or else damage the box plate and battery.

The preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a sectional view of a portion of the usual replenishing mechanism of a loom, showing the novel. support in place. Fig. 2 a plan View of the support detached and on an enlarged scale. .Fig. 3 is a, sectional view therethrough. Fig. at is a view in clevation of one of the bobbins.

Similar reference numerals designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the d rawings.

In the embodiment disclosed, the frame of the loom is shown at 4, and carried thereby is the usual circular stand 5. (3 is associated with the stand, and the usual rotatable feeder disks are employed, one of which is shown at 7. A transferring hammer of the ordinary type is illustrated at 8, and the tip supporting member is shown at 9. The bobbins to be transferred from the bobbin carrier mechanism are designated '10, and as shown in Fig. 4, the base of each bobbin is provided with siaccd rings ll. So far as thus described, tie structure is well known to those in the art.

For the purpose of supporting the bobbins and guiding them during their transfer from A guide stop,

the battery or bobbin carrier, the following device employed. A. stud 12 is fixed to the frame of the mechz-anisn'i, preferably by having one and threaded. thereinto, as shown at 13 and held by a nut 1/ This stud has a reduced portion 15, around which is coiled a spring wire 16, one end elf which is passed through and upset in a transverse opening lf' formed in the free end of the stud. The other end of this wire is deflected oi1t\\'-tn'dly away from the stud, producing a singlesupporting linger 17 that normally maintains the position shown in Fig. 1, but is capable of yielding dowmvardly, as will be obvious. This linger is so arranged that it will engage between the rings 11 of the bobbin, and as a result, will prevent the bobbin from moving out of position and out of the shuttle, so as to cause a smash. of the warp yarn.

It will be obvious that this device is life.- cecdingly simple, so that it can be cheaply mauuhicturcd, and experience has demonstrated that it will outlastthe devices now in common use, and will not permit the titling bobbin to fly out of the shut e. Furthernun-c it will not engage or ha g in the shuttle so as to break or damage th parts.

From the foregoing it is thought that the construction, operation and many advantages of the herein described invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art without further description, and it will be understood that various changes in the size, shape, proportion and minor details of construction may be resorted towithout dc )arting from the spirit or sacrificing any the advantages of ,the invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a bobbin feeder for looms, the combination with a frame, of a rotatable bobbin carrier, mechanism for transferring the bobbins from the carrier, and a yielding bobbin support associated with the carrier and transferring mechanism and compri ing a stud fixed to the frame, and a spring of wire coiled about the stud and havin one end secured to the free end of l'lIOStIK the other end of said wire being deflected outwardly away from the stud and constituting a yielding supporting linger that engages between the rings of the bobbin and prevents the longitudinal movement of said bobbin out of the shuttle during the trans.- ferring operation.

2. As an article of manufacture, a yield.- ing bobbin support comprising a stud having one end threaded and the other end reduced in cross sectional area, said latter end being provided in its free terminal Wither transverse opening, a sprin Wire coiled about the reduced portion 0 the stud and having one terminal engaged and secured oemeo in the opening, the other terminal of seiil Wire extending outwardly from the stud and, constituting a yielding supporting finger.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afhx my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

JAMES o. WADE.

Witnesses: I P. T. Rose,

W. D. NEWELL. 

